📰 Was Peru's mysterious monument Monte Sierpe (Band of Holes) an ancient marketplace?

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @sydney.edu.au

www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

📰 New research shows how the people of the ancient Peruvian city of Caral survived a climate catastrophe, adapting and moving rather than resorting to violence

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🚨 New paper out!

This work combines 3D geometric morphometrics, multivariate statistics, and machine learning to assess sexual dimorphism in great ape long bones — aiming to classify unsexed skeletal remains and reveal patterns relevant to human evolution.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Despite the extensive looting, Marcus and her team were able to recover a remarkably diverse and well-preserved assemblage of artefacts... demonstrating the wealth of material and thus information that can still be recovered from highly looted contexts." 2/2

✍️ Reviewed by @margotserra.bsky.social

Happy and honoured to share this paper with @ercrema.bsky.social about pottery in Early Holocene Africa! Check out more in the thread!

The recreated head and reconstructed skull of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal originally buried in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan around 75,000 years ago.

The crushed skull was rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge 🏺

I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a short thread: (1/n)

@margotserra.bsky.social working with the co-director of the Samaca Archaeological Project, George Chauca, in the field last summer, excavating the burial of a child discovered at a Preceramic site located at the mouth of the Rio Ica, south coast of Peru. (Credit: Dr. David Beresford Jones)

‼️Very excited to share that our paper on settlement patterns and land use in Etruria is finally out on JAS: Reports! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Only one month to go until the symposium "From Anatomy to Behaviour: Challenges and Solutions in Studying Hominin Postcranial Evolution" ☺️

Sign up to attend in person, or contact us to join online.

Find more info here: 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-anato...

Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomou
Fragmentary data and scattered lands: a recording protocol for a comparative archaeothanatological analysis based on archaeological illustrations
doi.org/10.4000/12kyz

I have started to compile a Starter Pack for those researching children and childhood in the past 👋 Do let me know if you’d like to be included! Hopefully we can grow this list as more people move to BlueSky🦋 #Archaeology #ChildhoodArchaeology @sscipchildhood.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TyZAyQ8

Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩
Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊
#archaeology #bioarchaeology

go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

Two PhD Studentships in the Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya, inclusing one focussing on #stableIsotopes and #zooarchaeology, at Cambridge University (starting October 2025): www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/ #jobalert #PhDpositions

🚩Dans notre dernier numéro, focus sur le dimorphisme sexuel de la base du crâne avec l'article publié par Alexandra Boucherie, qui a reçu pour ses travaux de thèse le prix de la SAP 2023!

They’re not exactly baffled (it’s ritual!), but still a cool study.🏺🧪

Great to see BABAO making an impact and maybe some progress on the sale of human remains in the UK.

www.patrickpester.com/post/mp-call...